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CHARACTER AND USES OF IMPORTED COTTON YARNS-GENERAL

TABLES

CHAPTER IV.

CHARACTER AND USES OF IMPORTED COTTON YARNS; GENERAL TABLES.

As shown by special investigation of 91.2 per cent of 1914 and 92 per cent of 1918 imports for consumption.

INTRODUCTION.

This chapter supplements Chapter III in setting forth the results obtained from a detailed investigation of 91.2 per cent of the 1914 and 92 per cent of the 1918 imports for consumption of cotton yarn. Discussion of the individual industries consuming the different kinds of yarn is confined to the preceding chapter, while the more inclusive general tables and discussion thereof follow in this chapter.

It should be borne in mind that the figures in Chapters III and IV relate entirely to 91.2 per cent of the 1914 and 92 per cent of the 1918 imports for consumption and therefore that the totals given will not check up exactly with the published totals of imports for consumption shown in Chapter II. The only exception is Table 10, which is inserted for two purposes: first, to compare imports by individual yarn counts and by yarn ranges in the fiscal years 1898, 1908, and 1918, so far as obtainable, and second, to show within what yarn ranges fall the amounts of yarn for which it was impossible to obtain figures by individual yarn counts.

TABLE 10.-Individual counts of cotton yarn imported for consumption (in pounds).

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TABLE 10.--Individual counts of cotton yarn imported for consumption (in pounds)—–

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Table 10 shows by individual count all of the imports for consumption, 1,742,951 pounds, as officially recorded for 1898, with the exception of 32,041 pounds. This amount, which is only 1.84 per cent of the total, was imported under the tariff act of 1894, which was in force the first 23 days of the fiscal year 1898; it was in the main "valued at over 40 cents a pound" and no yarn count was stated. For 1908 it is possible to show from the records the entire total of 7,014,237 pounds by individual yarn counts. For 1918 the official statistics show imports by yarn ranges only, no record having been kept of individual yarn counts. The special investigation made by the Tariff Commission disclosed invoices, readily available, amounting to 5,232,360 pounds of cotton yarn. This is 92 per cent of the officially recorded total of 5,687,641 pounds, leaving 455,281 pounds or 8 per cent for which invoice details were not obtained. Table 9 enables one to see at a glance what portions of this 455,281 pounds fell within each yarn range. Warehouse records and other data indicate that the largest amounts unascertained were probably of 97s, 98s, and 117s electrical yarns, followed by 120s, 58s, and 39s.

As the amounts for which individual counts were ascertained constituted 98.2 per cent in 1898, 100 per cent in 1908, and 92 per cent

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